You will find additional help for the agreement between themes in the Pluriurale section. A singular verb is also found with „majority“ in some cases, for example with „population.“ However, the plural verb is used when the focus is on the individuals in the group. It`s much rarer. Money sum, periods, distance, weights expressed by phrases such as „ten dollars; Five thousand“ in the subject are treated as singular (as a unit) and take a singular verb. The verb (i.e. the verb in the predicate) corresponds to the subject in person and in number. For example, I work; We/she work; my brother works; My brothers are working. In these constructs (called explective constructs), the subject follows the verb, but still determines the number of verbs. The indeterminate pronouns of each, each, no, no, no one, are always singular and therefore require singular verbs. For example, no one was available to meet me at my favorite times. Phrases like „ten students; Six books; five of them“ as a subject take a plural verb. The numbers at the beginning of the sentence are always displayed.
If necessary, restructure your game to avoid using the numbers at the beginning. If the compound subject is according to the predicate expressed by „it exists; there are“ (there was; there was, etc.), the verb is generally correct in the number with the next topic. Examples: my aunt or uncle arrives today by train. Neither Juan nor Carmen are available. It`s Kiana or Casey who helps decorate the scene. Agreement between the subject and the predicate. The difficult cases of the subject`s agreement and the predicate in the number. Approval of possessive pronouns. Agreement on staff pronouns.
Article 7. Use a singular verb with distances, periods, sums of money, etc., if they are considered a unit. Sometimes names take strange forms and can fool us to think that they are plural if they are truly singular and vice versa. You`ll find more help in the section on plural forms of nouns and in the section on collective nouns. Words such as glasses, pants, pliers and scissors are considered plural (and require plural verbs), unless they are followed by the pair of sentences (in this case, the pair of words becomes subject). Pronouns are neither singular nor singular and require singular verbs, even if they seem, in a certain sense, to refer to two things. 3. Compound themes that are bound by and are always plural. Article 8. With words that give pieces – z.B a lot, a majority, some, all — that were given above in this section, Rule 1 is reversed, and we are directed after the no bite after that of.